vacillant

See also: vacil·lant

English

Etymology

From Latin vacillans, present participle of vacillare. Compare French vacillant. See vacillate.

Adjective

vacillant (comparative more vacillant, superlative most vacillant)

1. Vacillating; wavering; fluctuating; irresolute.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vacillant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Verb

vacillant

1. present participle of vaciller

Adjective

vacillant (feminine vacillante, masculine plural vacillants, feminine plural vacillantes)

1. vacillating

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) vacillant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of vacillō